Useless Quotes
Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.
Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.
Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.
It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.
